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HISTOIRE DES REVOLUTIONS D'ANGLETERRE DEPUIS LE COMMENCEMENT DE LA MONARCHIE by (HISTORY - ENGLISH). ORLÉANS, PÈRE [PIERRE JOSEPH] DE

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Title: HISTOIRE DES REVOLUTIONS D'ANGLETERRE DEPUIS LE COMMENCEMENT DE LA MONARCHIE
Author: (HISTORY - ENGLISH). ORLÉANS, PÈRE [PIERRE JOSEPH] DE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: Chez Claude Barbin, 1693-94. FIRST EDITION. 248 x 191 mm. (9 3/4 x 7 1/2"). Three volumes.. SPLENDID AND UNUSUAL EARLY 19TH CENTURY MARBLED CALF, SUMPTUOUSLY GILT, WITH RED MOROCCO SPINES, covers with gilt borders of two decorative rules and an elegant undulating floral vine, flat straight-grain morocco spines very handsomely gilt in compartments with pointillé ground and central circlet from which radiate four lilies and four leaves on twining stems, turn-ins gilt with plain and decorative rolls, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With engraved head- and tailpieces and eight engraved portraits. Verso of front free endpaper with armorial bookplate of Baron de Mackau (see below); title page with ink ownership inscription (of Alexander Paul Ludwig Goupy?) in a contemporary hand. Brunet II, 822; Graesse II, 428; Lowndes I, 1374. Isolated gatherings with variable browning (a small handful rather browned), one leaf in first volume with inexpert early repair of four-inch tear (letters of four words partly obscured or displaced, and the text and facing page somewhat discolored), a few additional trivial imperfections internally, but the text generally quite fresh and clean. One joint with five small wormholes, a few (hardly noticeable) shallow scratches to covers, a hint of wear to extremities, but THE LOVELY BINDINGS IN FINE CONDITION, with lustrous leather and gilt, with only minor wear, and with their very considerable original visual appeal entirely intact. This history of "England's Revolutions" begins with the invasion of the Saxons and covers the struggles for the throne of England through the Plantagenets, Tudors, and Stuarts up to the Restoration and the reign of James II. The learned Jesuit historian Pierre Joseph d'Orléans (1641-98) was described by Voltaire as the first historian to specialize in revolutions--he was also the author of a history of revolutions in Spain, an account of the Tartar conquerors of China, and a subsequent study of the English Civil War, covering the years 1603-90 in depth. The present work was favorably received on both sides of the Channel: the Earl of Chatham commended it in his letters, and du Fresnoy described it as a "history written with eloquence and judgment" and praised its equal treatment of Catholics and Protestants. When the present set appeared in a George Bayntun catalogue, the bindings were described as "very handsome" and "almost identical to the set of Bertrand De Moleville's 'Histoire de la Révolution de France,' 1801-1803 bound by Bozerian" and also from the library of Baron de Mackau (1832-1918), a member of the Chamber of Deputies for 42 years and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. The volumes are unusual in their combination of calf boards with contrasting morocco spines, and their gilt decoration is particularly lovely. François Bozerian, generally called "Bozerian le jeune," was active in Paris from the turn of the 19th century until 1818, and for much of that time, he worked with his elder brother Jean-Claude. The Bozerian binderies produced many fine books, praised today especially for their technical achievement and elegance of design. The first edition of this work is surprisingly rare in the marketplace: RBH and ABPC record only one other copy at auction since at least 1975..

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Description: No Place: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 13 3/4" x 22 3/4". Publisher's poster for the release of the book in 1992, 13 3/4"w x 22 3/4"h. Near Fine, small crease at bottom edge. Distributed in limited numbers by the publisher at theABA trade show in 1992. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube..

English Music by ACKROYD, Peter

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Title: English Music
Author: ACKROYD, Peter
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (United States)
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Description: NY: Knopf. 1992. Uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of this novel by the award-winning author of First Light and Hawksmoor. Fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Fine.

Wild Was the Road by Candela, Benigno

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Title: Wild Was the Road
Author: Candela, Benigno
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Description: New York: Vantage Press. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1963). First Edition. Hardcover. [some visible wear to boards along bottom edges, at both ends of spine, and corners, faint dust-soiling to top edge of text block; jacket edgeworn, rubbed, and lightly soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears, 1-inch horizontal scrape on front panel, one 2-inch closed tear at bottom front hinge]. Vanity-press novel tracing "the history of an Italian family through two world wars, chronicling its triumphs and agonies, its material poverty and spiritual grandeur, its diminution and its resurrection in the new world." The author, you will not be surprised to learn, was born in Italy and drew on his family history and some of his own experiences for this novel; the jacket blurb refers to the disappearance of his brother "during the terrible retreat on the Russian front in the winter of 1942-43," the same fate suffered by a character in the novel, and to the author's own narrow escape from the Germans during the war. He subsequently relocated to San Francisco and went into the restaurant business. .

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